Don’t believe the spin. The European Union’s drive towards centralisation continues at break-neck speed. This was illustrated just last night when a report – an ultimate EU wish list – was discussed in the European Parliament by the federalist fanatics
Hundreds of migrants trying to reach Europe from Libya are feared to have drowned after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean, Italy’s coastguard says. The migrants, who were crammed into a fishing boat, sent out a distress call some 15
Roman mayor Ignazio Marino has said the city has become too “overcrowded”, as it is now a major destination for the thousands of migrants flowing into the country from beyond the Mediterranean. One fifth of all migrants entering Italy now end up
One in five people living in Germany have an immigrant background, the highest figure on record, new research has found. Meanwhile, the number of people who have no immigrant background has declined in real terms by nearly a million people.
Posters advising migrants to pretend to be gay in order to claim asylum in the UK have sprung up at the Calais migrant camp known as The Jungle. The extensive, detailed advice is written in both English and Arabic. It
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats party has launched a poster campaign apologising for “organised begging” in Stockholm. The posters, which are in English and aimed at tourists, feature images of people sleeping in the street and say: “Sorry about the mess
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) has withdrawn a “teaching resource” about Palestine which referred to “Jews” as opposed to Israelis, and was criticised as “one sided” and serving an “extremist” agenda. In a statement on Tuesday the NUT said:
Quentin Letts has stuck an elegant suede bootee into the Met Office. And the Warmists aren’t happy. UK Meteorological Office universally respected used by USA on its most sensitive missions. BBC broadcasts unfounded attacks. Right of reply? — John Deben
Malmö, Sweden is living up to its reputation as the city where multiculturalism went to die as three men were stabbed over the course of last night. Local police, who admit they are severely overstretched and are struggling to make an
UK hate preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with inviting support for terror group Islamic State. He has been charged alongside Mohammed Mizanur Rahman. Both men have been charged in relation their activities between 29 June 2014 and 6 March
The disgraced children’s charity Kids Company is expected to close off all of its services today after it received an emergency “sustainability grant” from the taxpayer just last week. The Cabinet Office released the payment at the end of June
One of the large makeshift migrant camps near Calais is under the control of people smugglers, many of them British, reports suggest. Sky News claims to have witnessed British-registered vehicles at the camp at Teteghem, with one man with a
In the debate between the four Conservative mayoral election hopefuls, clear dividing lines were drawn between the two members of Parliament, Syed Kamall MEP and Zac Goldsmith MP, and the two London-centric candidates, Andrew Boff, a Conservative London Assembly member,
This morning’s Conservative mayoral radio debate will have left London Tory listeners with a clear impression of choice between candidates representing all corners of the ‘broad church’ party. On the panel of the BBC London Radio mayoral debate were London Assembly member
Londoners face major transport disruption from Wednesday evening as train drivers and staff on the underground rail network walk out for the second time in less than a month. Unions are angry over plans to introduce a new night service
Over 2,000 migrants have been ‘saved’ by the Italian coastguard over the past three days, just a fraction of the so-called ‘swarm’ presently migrating north through Europe. As illegals attempting to cross the Mediterranean in unseaworthy boats to Europe were
“Morality” reforms have led to the Indian government ordering internet companies to ban 857 Indian porn websites. The government’s ministry for telecommunications made the order on the back of a Supreme Court judgement last month which said access to the
The Welsh Government is poised to oust religious education and ban Christianity from schools to “rise to the challenge of community cohesion” and “extremism.” Welsh Minister for Education and Skills Huw Lewis, told Senedd, The Welsh Parliament: “My contention would be
The German government has enlisted the help of its army to deal with the tens of thousands of asylum seekers arriving in the country every month. Nearly 80,000 migrants arrived last month alone, putting the country on track to receive
Oh silly season, how I love you. The newspapers are filled with absolute crap, our politicians are ignoring major national issues, because all the decent journalists are on holiday, and our 24-hour news channels have to rely on second string
Have they forgotten what they’re employed to do, or is this just the latest, logical extension of British police’s new ‘community cohesion’ remit? Either way, the creation of a taxpayer-funded gay police car for Brighton’s pride event this weekend past
The Metropolitan Police Force has announced it is investigating the late Tory MP and former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath as part of an ongoing inquiry into claims of abuse by establishment figures. That means that Ted Heath is now being
Asylum seekers are to be housed in a former old peoples home which Kent county council originally closed because they said it would be too expensive to maintain. The building sits directly behind a primary school, and local residence have
A Conservative Member of Parliament has said that anti-extremism powers should be used against Christian teachers who don’t agree with gay marriage. Christian groups said that the comments prove that the government’s new anti-extremist orders, designed to tackle Islamic extremism, will
British schoolchildren are “rude, bone-idle and cossetted by the welfare state“. So say a group of Chinese teachers who, as part of a BBC TV experiment (Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School – first episode on tonight), spent four
The European Commission has called on Britain to “show solidarity” by taking in yet more migrants from Africa and the Middle East. Figures published yesterday show that the UK receives the sixth highest number of applications from asylum seekers in
